Life can become suddenly funny, if the only remaining option is disbelief, horror, or acknowledging the absurd. Watching Congressional Democrats face an irate public – sick of socialism, critical race theory, intimidating parents, defunding police, high crime, botched foreign policy, rising inflation, loss of energy independence, and open borders – is like watching a covey of rabbits face an angry dog. Rabbits flee. Democrats are fleeing – their own policies.
Already, Democrat cuts in police – at every level – are terrifying the public, triggering blowback for police demoralization, reduced recruiting, retention, record homicide rates, crime spikes, drug trafficking, overdoses, and attacks on police. See, e.g., When Democrats Defund Our Police, Communities are Less Safe; Suburban Dems flee from ‘defund the police’; As murders surge, Democrats find a new message: Fund the police; ‘It’s just crazy’: 12 major cities hit all-time homicide records; Drug overdose deaths hit record high.
Result? Record public gun-buying (especially among women and minorities), elevated public fear, and now – just in time for the coming 2022 “day of reckoning” – desperate policy reversals. But it is too late. The public knows who did this. Republicans did not push “defund police.” See, e.g., U.S. Bought Almost 20 Million Guns Last Year — Second-Highest Year On Record.
Notably, Republicans did not push the loss of America’s energy independence or bloated federal spending – together creating an inflationary tsunami, a wave of price increases not seen in 40 years. This wave affects all families, squeezing healthcare, groceries, gas, heat, and life. See, e.g., Commentary: Overspending is fueling US inflation; Inflation Continued to Run Hot and Consumer Spending Fell in December.
Republicans did not push stripping parents of control over public education, ending the teaching of real history, real biology, and real math – in the name of revisionist nonsense. See, e.g., Scientific American (and math) go full woke; US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science.
They did not push Marxist theory and racism under the guise of open thinking, did not advocate ending “boys and girls,” and did not push the chaotic, historically jarring, utterly immoral decision to leave American allies to die at the hands of the Taliban – by the tens of thousands, now largely unreported, but still happening.
And Republicans did not push the “open borders” idea, outlaw the term “illegal alien,” vilify border patrol officials, sneak tens of thousands (often at night) into rural and suburban America, create the border-related gang and drug trafficking mess, record homelessness, overdoses, and human trafficking (often leading to the horrific abuse of girls), all traceable back to “open borders” and the plaintiff call for mass “amnesty.”
But now, in what is comic and tragic, the Democrat Party is circling the wagons, pretending they were not the cause of this huge, all-consuming, “social forest fire,” burning down much of what is right, good, best, and legal about America, to promote the reverse, disrespect for the law, security, safety, and families.
In the end, the arsonist is found, trail clear once people look. Last week, the Democrats decided their 2022 reelection calls for pretending they know nothing of these policies. The “social forest fire” is not their doing – they just discovered it themselves and are just mortified. Right.
Leading reports say they are telling each other to deny supporting “open borders,” “amnesty,” “police defunding,” and other controversial issues, from ending fossil fuels to promoting drug abuse, uncontrolled debt to 64 genders, ending Title 9 protection for girls to bullying parents. See, e.g., Democrats warned to deny backing’ amnesty’ ahead of midterms: report.
Oops! Now we see another adage at work – “what goes around, comes around.” Things seem headed back their way. They are scampering, rabbits realizing the angry public means business.
Apparently, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is recommending strategies – which look like denying the truth – for “endangered lawmakers” who hope they can “avoid a barrage of attacks … on a variety of issues from defunding the police to critical race theory” and “immigration.”
Public reports suggest senior Democrats are advising “deny support” for “open borders and amnesty,” deflect to the idea of “safe” borders. Now, there is a concept; what a thought, sanctity of borders! What a time for an epiphany!
On the sanctity of borders and opposing illegal immigration, as on other issues, the denial is not tinny – it is a total reversal of their position. Democrats literally hollered for these indefensible policies. Now, they forget.
As one report notes, the reversal “might prove to be a tricky task, since Democrats have by and large supported administration efforts to dramatically roll back Trump-era border protections like border wall construction, Migrant Protection Protocols, and Title 42 public health protections.”
At the same time, if the public looks – Congressional Democrats have strongly pushed amnesty grants for illegal aliens or “undocumented persons.” They have framed legislation – even within the last year, such as the US Citizenship Act of 2021 – which offers citizenship to those here illegally.
All this flies in the face of consequences – current social disruptions – created by allowing and encouraging illegal immigration and open borders. Thus, illegal immigrant encounters topped 178,000 in December alone.
Where does all this lead? To a possible 2022 midterm rout, with sharp voters tired of being taken as fools, led by those running from the mess they created. The nub? The American public is angry, and Democrats know it.